"spitter" meaning in English

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    [
      "spit",
      "spit#English"
    ],
    [
      "*-eh₂",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-eh₂"
    ],
    [
      "*-os",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-os#Proto-Indo-European:_athematic"
    ],
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      "*-yós",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-yós#Proto-Indo-European:_suffix"
    ],
    [
      "*-āsios",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/-āsios#Proto-Italic:_adjective"
    ],
    [
      "-ārius",
      "-arius#Latin:_adjective"
    ],
    [
      "-ārius",
      "-arius#Latin:_agent_noun"
    ],
    [
      "*-ārijaz",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-ārijaz#Proto-Germanic:_noun"
    ],
    [
      "*-ārī",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/-ārī#Proto-West_Germanic:_agent_suffix"
    ],
    [
      "-ere",
      "-ere#Old_English:_agent_suffix"
    ],
    [
      "-ere",
      "-ere#Middle_English:_agent_suffix"
    ],
    [
      "-ārius",
      "-arius#Latin:_agent_noun"
    ],
    [
      "-ier",
      "-ier#Old_French:_nouns"
    ],
    [
      "-er",
      "-er#Middle_English:_agentive"
    ],
    [
      "-er",
      "-er#English:_agent_suffix"
    ],
    [
      "spit",
      "spit#English"
    ],
    [
      "-er",
      "-er#English:_agent_suffix"
    ]
  ],
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      },
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    {
      "form": "spitters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spittard",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "One who puts meat on a spit."
      ],
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        [
          "meat",
          "meat"
        ],
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          "spit",
          "spit"
        ]
      ]
    },
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          "_dis": "43 57",
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          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent suffix)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, pricket"
        }
      ],
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        "A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp."
      ],
      "id": "en-spitter-en-noun-MQmRyxY-",
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        [
          "deer",
          "deer"
        ],
        [
          "antler",
          "antler"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "brocket"
        },
        {
          "word": "knobber"
        },
        {
          "word": "knobbler"
        },
        {
          "word": "pricket"
        }
      ]
    }
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}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "spitters are quitters"
    }
  ],
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      "spit",
      "spit#English"
    ],
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      "*-eh₂",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-eh₂"
    ],
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      "*-os",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-os#Proto-Indo-European:_athematic"
    ],
    [
      "*-yós",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-yós#Proto-Indo-European:_suffix"
    ],
    [
      "*-āsios",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/-āsios#Proto-Italic:_adjective"
    ],
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      "-ārius",
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    ],
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      "-ārius",
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    ],
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      "*-ārijaz",
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    ],
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      "*-ārī",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/-ārī#Proto-West_Germanic:_agent_suffix"
    ],
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      "-ere",
      "-ere#Old_English:_agent_suffix"
    ],
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      "-ere",
      "-ere#Middle_English:_agent_suffix"
    ],
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      "-ārius",
      "-arius#Latin:_agent_noun"
    ],
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      "-ier",
      "-ier#Old_French:_nouns"
    ],
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      "-er",
      "-er#Middle_English:_agentive"
    ],
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      "-er",
      "-er#English:_agent_noun"
    ],
    [
      "spit",
      "spit#English"
    ],
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      "-er",
      "-er#English:_agent_noun"
    ]
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        "plural"
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    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "sprayer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "spritzer"
    }
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        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              24,
              32
            ]
          ],
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        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              138,
              146
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009, David T. Wong, Salivary Diagnostics, page 107:",
          "text": "After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Someone who spits."
      ],
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      ]
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      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "swallower"
        }
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        "Someone who spits.",
        "Someone who spits out semen during oral sex."
      ],
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        "Someone who spits.",
        "(vulgar) Someone who spits out semen during oral sex."
      ],
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      ],
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          "ref": "2010, Killah Priest, “Priest History”, in The 3 Day Theory:",
          "text": "On the stage with the RZA to the Gravediggaz\nGZA used to say I was his favorite spitter",
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        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              92,
              100
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2012, Joey Badass featuring Capital Steez, “Killuminati”, in 1999:",
          "text": "What you tryna be Vito? Well there's rules to this shit\nDon't get clapped, y'all ain't real spitters, y'all lips chapped",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rapper, emcee."
      ],
      "id": "en-spitter-en-noun-iWQWX5Qb",
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        [
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          "rapper"
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        [
          "emcee",
          "emcee"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hip-hop slang) Rapper, emcee."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "dancing",
        "hip-hop",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
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